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Word: blankings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...midway through a six-week run, demands the same attention. Blink and you will miss the Tower of Pisa looming outside a window in "a neighborhood called Little Italy." Glance at the evening paper and you will not see a young couple walk through a "Japanese garden" filled with blank-faced nisei standing in planters. Raid the fridge and you will miss the visit Sergeant-Lieut. Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) pays to a shoeshine wizard who knows everything about the Underworld-and about life after death, open-heart surgery and the fate of the Dodgers' pitching staff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Deftly Dippy | 3/29/1982 | See Source »

...Crimson didn't get a shot on net for the first 7 27 of the game, and it was the goaltending of Lau that kept them even. The senior netminder denied Tim Thomas from point blank around the 2 20 mark, and then make two straight saves on the ever-present Todd Leey, who had scored two goals the night before...

Author: By Michael Bass, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: The Season's Over; Wisconsin Prevails, 6-1, 4-3 | 3/22/1982 | See Source »

...mature enough to admit their lust for the trend-setter bunnies. Not that they get anywhere with the fast crowd. No, they must still alone for their occasional outbursts of sarcasm or their lingering interest in science fiction. Predominantly male (but including a few young women who write bad blank verse and read Virginia Woolf), the special-interest partisans are the hope and promise of their generation...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Looking Out for the Harolds | 3/9/1982 | See Source »

Bottom-line types beef about everything from home recording and sales of blank tape cassettes to the boom in home video games and the counterfeiting of albums. Jules Yarnell, special counsel for the Recording Industry Association of America, estimates that companies lose $800 million every year through counterfeiting, piracy and bootlegging. Walter Yetnikoff, president of CBS Records Group, figures the industry loses 20% of its revenue just from home taping. Jack Reinstein, treasurer of Electra/Asylum/ Nonesuch Records, calculates 400 million albums were taped off the air in 1980 alone, "without any compensation to the artist, the songwriters and publishers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Rock Hits the Hard Place | 2/15/1982 | See Source »

...always do, the loathesome of Lynah tied a live chicken to the Harvard goal posts. As usual, it was not funny... Early in the third period, the Big Red's Len Jankowski hit the post behind Lau, and only a few minutes later the Crimson netminder deflected a point-blank bid by Kerling...Scott Fusco now has ten goals on the year, to lead the team... Harvard S. Cornell 4 (OT) at Ithaca, N.Y. Harvard 2 1 1 1-5 Cornell...

Author: By Michael Bass, | Title: Icemen Surprise Big Red, 5-4 (OT) | 2/13/1982 | See Source »

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